A TRAINEE HSBC banker slept with a boss 30 years her senior before bombarding him and his teen daughter with abusive messages when their relationship broke apart.
Emily Salt, 26, threatened “I will destroy your daughter and you career” in a deluge of 89 messages over four weeks to her 56-year-old ex lover.
The court heard the young woman “fell deeply in love” with her senior at the back during the six month internship.
But she began to issue disturbing and insulting messages when their relationship broke down.
Croydon Magistrates Court heard the young woman had acted to cause “maximum distress” to the dad and his daughter.
In one of the messages, Salt aimed insults at her ex’s 16-year-old daughter, saying: “You look like a slut, your eyebrows are halfway up our head. Your dad makes enough money to get a nose job for you.”
Salt was issued with a string of restraining orders as the judge told her she “clearly crossed” a line.
District Judge Nigel McLean said: “Your actions in relation to the father were designed to cause him distress by subjecting him to harassment and abusing his daughter as well.
“The abuse they are subject to was sinister.”
The court also heard that Facebook and Instagram accounts were set up in the name of the banker by the young woman.
Salt pleaded guilty to causing her ex harassment between April 15 and May 19, last year and his daughter harassment between November 1, 2018 and August 1, 2019.
Salt’s lawyer Marina Williamson told the court: “She met the victim during a six-month internship at the bank and little did she know it would end up in the terrible ordeal that has ended here.
“He was senior at the bank, thirty years older than her and she was quite vulnerable, quite young.
“She fell deeply in love with him and that is part of the reason she behaved so badly at the end.”
Salt was also originally charged with a £9,000 fraud regarding the ISA, but this was dropped at Inner London Crown Court.
Salt, of Disley, Stockport was sentenced to an eighteen month community order.
She was also ordered to complete up to 25 days probation-ordered rehabilitation and 100 hours community service work.
Salt was made subject to an 18-month restraining order, prohibiting contact with the two victims or visiting their addresses in York and Haxby.
She must also pay £85 costs and an £85 victim surcharge.
